Ian is a Director with Plum Consulting, with over twenty years of experience in strategy and technology consulting in the telecoms and digital sectors.Formerly with PwC Strategy Consulting (TMT) London, Coopers & Lybrand MCS (Telecoms) London, and with extensive industry / international...

Brendan Ives is VP & Head of Division X - the future businesses arm of Telia Company. In this role Brendan is tasked with spearheading efforts in areas such as IoT, Data Insights and eHealth. Until recently, when Telia Ventures was formed, he was also responsible for Telia Company’s investment...

Pablo Tomasi is a Senior Analyst working in the Telco Digitization practice at the research and consulting firm ABI Research. In this role he is leading the UnTelco research, analysing telcos’ strategies, innovations, technologies and opportunities across end-vertical markets. Topics analysed in...

Joined KDD (presently KDDI) in 1991.  Has been a member of KDDI Standardisation team since 2008, focusing on 3GPP Standardisation (LTE/5G Radio Technologies).  In 2015, Toshiyasu moved to London, UK, to add research work on Europe’s Mobile/5G and GSMA activities to his role (GSMA Mobile IoT LTE-M...

Paul leads the digital service and technology strategy teams within Cambridge Consultants. With more than 20 years’ experience in wireless and fixed broadband networking, Paul has led a range of projects for operators, product development organisations and government departments. As a...

Erling Gudmundsson is a pioneer in the fibre industry, with over twenty years’ experience, building and operating fibre networks in six countries in Europe. In Dublin Ireland in 2004 it was the first 100 Mb/s FTTH network (Magnet Networks), in London in 2008 first 100 Mb/s FTTH network (Velocity1)...

Bengt is CEO of independent telecoms consultancy Northstream. Bengt co-founded Northstream in 1998. Previously, he was CTO and Executive Director of Hong Kong mobile operator SmarTone, and has also held senior management positions at Ericsson and Comviq. Bengt was a member of the Executive...

Mr. Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990.  He is now SVP and General Manager of the 5G Laboratories in NTT DOCOMO, Inc. Mr. Nakamura has been engaged in the standardization activities for the W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced and 5G at ARIB in Japan since 1997. He has been the Acting...

Durdana Achakzai is a Senior Vice President at Telenor Group and Chief Digital Officer for Telenor Pakistan (TP) where she was the first female in the company’s top management since inception. . Durdana is leading Telenor’s  transformation into a digital services provider and is she is looking...

Salah is the General Manger of Digital & Analytics Department at Zain-Saudi Arabia, leading the digital transformation and big-data initiatives of the company. He was part of the pre-launch team of the second & third mobile operators in Saudi Arabia, including Zain where he works now. Salah ...

Nikolai Beckers was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Bakcell in 2016.Prior to that, he held key posts in leading telecommunications companies in countries of Western and Eastern Europe and Southeastern Asia. His work experience covers implementation of activities and projects that played ...

Tom has had the good fortune to have worked in telecoms and mobile telecoms for 24 years. Telecoms is fundamentally a force for good (communicating is rarely a bad thing) and a wonderful industry to work in, an entire industry predicated on partnerships and cooperative working, where the only...

Ramy Boctor, Vodafone Qatar’s CTO, is playing a critical role in ensuring the Company’s state of the art infrastructure accelerates the State of Qatar’s journey towards becoming one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.Ramy has more than 19 years of experience in telecoms. He ...

Anthony Impey is a technology entrepreneur who has built Optimity into the London’s leading provider of Wibre- a wireless alternative to fibre that offers small businesses gigabit connectivity.  He leads Tech London Advocates Infrastructure Group, which aims to improve connectivity in the capital.  ...

Daniel is Industry Leader at Facebook, heading the Tech & Telco vertical business at Facebook Global Marketing Solutions inside EMEA. He spent more than 17 years in the ICT and digital industry in different executive roles. Before he held executive board member positions such as CEO and...

Su-Kil Lee joined KT in 2000 and was responsible for improvement of mobile network quality. He also worked on network strategy of KT as well as device technology during most of his career in KT. Currently, he works as the head of the Network Research Technology Support Unit in KT.

Ian is the Programme Director for the 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme which will deliver the Government's ambition to be a world leader in 5G.He has over 20 years experience in the Telecoms Industry with a wide range of experience of Designing, Building and Operating both fixed and Mobile...

Sebastian is an industry expert with long-term working experience in the sector of network and smart home technology. He worked as market development manager, project engineer and technical consultant at Zyxel for more than ten years. In 2016, Sebastian joined devolo as Product Manager and since...

Pradeep Sreedharan is a telecommunications industry leader, having worked formore than two decades in conceptualizing, planning and executing transformationstrategy and new businesses in different global markets.On Nov 2016 he joined as the Vice President – Sales and Business operationsof...

Dean Bubley (@disruptivedean) is the Founder of Disruptive Analysis, an independent technology industry analyst and consulting firm. An outspoken analyst & futurist with over 25 years’ experience, he specialises in Internet, mobile, and telecoms fields. He is one of the leading market observers ...

Ravindran Mahalingam is the Senior Vice President – International Business Division of HGC Global Communications Limited (“HGC”) and a key member in HGC Management Committee. He is leading HGC International Business Division and responsible for the overall global business development and strategic...

Jacky Simmonds was appointed as Chief People Officer of VEON in January 2018. Prior to this appointment, she was Group Director, People of Easyjet plc, with responsibility for Human Resources globally.Prior to Jacky’s tenure at Easyjet, she held a series of senior HR positions in the travel sector...

Harkirit Singh is a Senior Executive leading the Digital transformation for Telcos globally at Tata Communication Transformation Services (TCTS). He leads a Global Solutions function focusing on next generation networks enabling Hyper Connectivity and Ultra High Speed broadband networks. He is...

Dalibor Vavruska is a Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Connectivity Strategy and CEEMEA Telecom research at Citigroup in London.Dalibor currently leads digital connectivity strategy research at Citigroup, which focuseson predicting industry trends and trend changes in telecommunications...

Yves Bellégo is currently director, network strategy at Orange Group. He began his career in 1988 in IT engineering. In 1991, he joined the research centre of France Telecom, where he worked on the standardization of GSM. He accompanied the phases of GSM, UMTS and LTE deployment and expansion with...

Anju Sethi is the Director for Leadership, Learning, Talent and Diversity at BT Technology. She was previously the Group Head of Learning and Talent for Tesco PLC c. 500,000 people.  Anju has led initiatives over her career that have transformed organization culture, improved engagement...

Graduate of the Business School - National Louis University in Nowy Sącz and the University of Gdansk (Faculty of Management). Over 13 years of experience in the financial-insurance industry.Since 2004 he has held managerial positions in such banking sector companies as Sygma Bank Polska...

Research Focus:Don is a Senior Analyst in the Telco Digitization practice at ABI Research where he provides research and analysis on service provider adoption of cloud technologies and their application in fixed and mobile networks. Pertinent research topics include Artificial Intelligence and...

Marta Capelo is ETNO’s Director of Public Policy. She leads on core regulatory issues related to telecommunications networks. Marta also oversees engagement on horizontal issues such as competition in the Digital Economy, 5G and IoT and the representation of the before international...

Jean-Yves Charlier sits on the Board of Directors of multiple groups, including Digicel, and leads investments in high-growth and disruptive digital companies focused on supporting corporates in accelerating their digital transformation.Jean-Yves Charlier was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of ...

Yves Dubuisson is currently Chief Strategy Officer at Ooredoo Algeria, in charge of strategy, corporate development, new business, and executive sponsor for the digital transformation. Previously, he worked with Du in UAE for 7 years where he led the growth strategy and investments in digital...

Adam is Head of Wholesale EMEA for Telstra, a leading telecommunications and technology company. Based in London, he oversees Telstra’s wholesale business in EMEA, with responsibility for developing and driving the business strategy, as well as wholesale and OTT customer relationships. With a...

Ronald van der Breggen, Chief Commercial Officer of LeoSat Enterprises, has more than 20 years of experience in the telecom and satellite sectors.  A native of the Netherlands, van der Breggen began his telecom career at Dutch Telecom incumbent KPN, rising to the position of VP IP Services.  From...

Nicholas (Nick) Reed is a digital transformation expert, specializing in the communications sectors. He has been involved in some of the biggest Hollywood film and TV franchises, created some of the most shared and engaging digital content in the world and won an Oscar.In 2013, Nick co-founded...

Johannes van Wijk, based in Prague – Czech Republic, has almost 20 years’ experience working on ICT projects in the Banking and Telecom industry. He has worked both on the operations and delivery side of the business, but moved back into the software development and automation area in the last 5...

Having been with Mojio since the company first unveiled its connected car tech in 2014, Kyle knows the inner workings of the rapidly evolving automotive industry and is keen to continue its disruption by 'connecting the unconnected' cars of the world.Kyle leads Mojio's global marketing...

Coming from developing large scale E-Commerce Systems, along with strong B2C marketing & communications background first tapping into bot-based customer interactions in 2014, Fabian started a new journey with solvatio AG just recently as part of their “Innovation Team” shedding light on how...

Colin Lee is the technology owner of V2X for Jaguar Land Rover, V2X Group Manager. He has set up many new technologies other the years ranging from Broadcast origins; TV test and development, NICAM 728 digital audio, High Definition Television, TV/Audio Standards conversion, VSAT installations in...

David Crawford runs the Centre for White Space Communications at the University of Strathclyde, working closely with industry partners and other organizations to investigate techniques and novel approaches for affordable Internet connectivity in hard-to-reach areas. He was the Project Manager for...

Peter holds an engineering degree in systems analysis and shares more than 15 years of experience with solvatio AG in providing solutions for automated customer incident resolution to the telco industry. What originally started off with rule-based expert systems and process automation has evolved...

Mani has a diverse track record that blends more than 10,000 hours in each of technology innovation, product strategy and policy making with leadership of bold initiatives at large technology firms, tech start-ups, regulatory authority and industry bodies.  At GSMA, he focuses on the business and...

Emanuel Kolta is a Research Analyst in the 5G & Mobile Network Infrastructure practice at the market foresight advisory firm, ABI Research. Topics Emanuel covers include 5G infrastructure, market forecasting, consumer and industrial 5G use cases. Emanuel has 5 years previous experience as a...

Senior banking executive with extensive domestic and international experience. Building and expanding ING's position as a leading global TMT bank for over sixteen years in various roles. Deep insight in the Technology, Media & Telecom sector. Is trusted strategic advisor and relationship...

A highly experienced management consultant and business director, specialising in the telecoms industry.  He has held senior posts in management consultancy, business and marketing management, and has extensive international experience as a consultant.    He specialises in the identification and...

Ronen Shpirer is responsible for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and Cloud solutions marketing for Fortinet in EMEA. Ronen has over 20 years of international pre-sales and marketing experience in networking and security in the CSP and Enterprise markets.  Prior to joining Fortinet, Ronen...

Nicola is a Project Manager with more than 20 years of experience in telecommunications sector.He has an extensive experience in Industrial Accounting, Investment Analysis, Customer Operations, and Competitive and Strategic Positioning.Since 2000 he has been working for TIM S.p.A. the largest...